No one wants a turkey neck for Thanksgiving

by Tally on November 26, 2009

For those readers outside the United States, Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The typical fare is turkey. But, the neck on the turkey for dinner isn't really what I want to talk about here.

One common side effect of routine infant circumcision is turkey neck or penoscrotal webbing. Turkey neck occurs when the penis shaft skin is so tight that, when erect, some skin from the scrotum is pulled forward on the bottom of the penis. The pulled scrotal skin forms a web under the penis. Penoscrotal webbing sometimes occurs in intact men, but most often in circumcised men with a very tight cut. An aggressive circumcision removes too much skin and scrotal skin is pulled up to accommodate the enlarged penis during an erection.

With an infant, it is impossible to judge the size of his penis when the infant is an adult. So, typically, the doctor removes what he thinks is enough skin. If too much shaft skin is removed during circumcision, then when the adult has an erection, scrotal skin is pulled away from the body. This is typically more pronounced at the ventral side. The scrotal skin forms a web from the bottom of the scrotal sack to the circumcision scar for the most extreme case.

Typically, guys just starting foreskin restoration worry about getting a turkey neck. Most experienced tuggers will tell you that as you grow more shaft skin, your scrotal skin will stay next to and around your nuts. It does this because the skin that is most susceptible to growing from tugging is closer to your glans and the slack skin you are growing keeps the scrotal skin from being pulled up. Typically, the new skin is between where the scrotal skin attaches to the shaft and the corona.

With a bi-directional device like the CAT IIQ, DTR, or TLC-X, the skin that is tensioned most is the skin inside the device. That is the skin between your glans and the clamping part of the device. Depending upon how tight the skin outside the device is when wearing the restoring device, the outer skin, including any scrotal skin, may not be tensioned at all or have very little.

Another factor that tells us that it is difficult to grow a turkey neck is that, if you use a tugging device to tension your skin, the skin closest to the device has the most tension and is the part of your foreskin that is most likely to grow. The skin further away from the device has a larger cross-sectional area and the tension per area is less. With less tension per area, there is less or no growth of skin.

When I first started rstoring my foreskin, I immediately noticed that my scrotal sack was hanging lower. As my shaft skin loosened up from restoring my foreskin, less scrotal skin was needed to cover my shaft. that scrotal skin stayed around my testicles and let them hang lower. The natural tendency is for the scrotal skin to return to the scrotum as more foreskin is restored.

Bottom line, unless you are stretching your scrotal skin so tight that you can strum it like a guitar string, don't worry about creating a turkey neck or making an existing one worse. Foreskin restoration will not create a turkey neck. Nor will it make one worse. One benefit to restoring your foreskin is reducing an existing turkey neck.

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I have been restoring for 3 years now. Over the past year, I have begun using tugging weights, which have a tendency to pull not only shaft skin but some skin from my scrotum too. I have tried various ways to eliminate "webbing" and finally found an inexpensive way to keep the shaft skin isolated while tugging. Go down to your local department store and buy a sports wrist band. They are elastic and are generally covered with soft material. Cut a hole through the center of the band (enough for your shaft). Place it through the hole and then wrap the band around your scrotum. The band will separate the "webbing" skin and will also stretch your scrotum downward. If the band slips a bit, which mine did, I took a pair of suspenders, separated them, and then used one side, stretching it around my waist and connecting the ends to the top of the wristband. This way, it keeps the wristband in place..... allowing your scrotum to stretch down and the weighted tugger to pull the isolated shaft skin.

Who is this guy?

Restoring Tally is just an ordinary guy who had to confront his prostate and circumcision problems. This site chronicles his journey in dealing with these issues. He has had prostate surgery and he is restoring his foreskin.